Combination floor, carpet, and wall brush.



PATENTED JAN 6, 1903.

I. H. LOVELESS.

COMBINATION FLOOR, GARPET, AND WALL BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1902 N0 MODEL.

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15206721373 fiezgliovezeozg Mzy .NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED H. LOVELESS, OF TIFFIN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES L. DANIELS, OF TIFFIN, OI-IIO.

COMBINATION FLOOR, CARPET, AND WALL BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,878, dated January 6, 1903.

Original application filed April 4, 1902, Serial No. 101,348. Divided and this application filed September 9, 1902. Seriall To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, FRED H. LovELEss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tifiin, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Floor, Carpet, and Wall Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in to handle attachments for floor, carpet, and Wall brushes; and the object is to provide an attachment of the handle to the brush-head, whereby the direction of the handle with relation to the head may be speedily changed.

The object also is to provide a connection which will be neat in appearance, compact, strong, and very cheap to make.

This invention formed a part of an application for patent filed by me on the 4th day of April, 1902, Serial No.'101,34:8, for a brush patent issued Septen1ber30, 1902, No. 710,161.

, I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in partial longitudinal vertical section of a brush head and handle having my invention; Fig. 2, a detail in front view of the middle portionof the brush, showing handle attached thereto by means of my 0 invention; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 4: 4: of Fig. 3.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

8 represents the brush-head,which will preferably be of wood, having the tufts 9 of usual and well-known construction.

10 is the handle, which has a metalic end 11, provided with a central screw-threaded hole c into which takes the threaded end of a bolt 12. The threaded end of the bolt has the two 1 diametrically opposite flattened sides 7 7 for purposes which will be presently explained, and the bolt is inserted through a suitable round hole in the brush-head. The head of the bolt is preferably let into the body of the brush, as shown in Fig. 1, and the threaded (No model.

end of the bolt is bent at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the body portion.

Between the end of the handle and the head of the brush is the Wedge-shaped washer 13, which has a rectangular hole through which the fiat-sided bolt end is projected, whereby when the washer is turned the bolt will be turned or rotated with it, thereby changing the angular relation of the handle and the brush -head. The rectangular hole in the washer is represented at 18. Leather washers 14 and 15 are used to relieve any strain that might have a tendency to injure the threads of the bolt or of the handle end.

The washer'13 has the indents 16 to afford engagement 01' holds to the fingers in turning the washer when it is desired to change the handle, and a groove 17 in the front of the Washer 13 enables the washer to be set square by alining the groove with the like line of the head. 1

To set the handle, unscrew it from the head by turning it to the left, then turn the washer 7o 13 to the desired position, and when it is at the desired place turn the handle to the right, thereby screwing it tight against the washer.

Having thus fully described my invention, what Iclairn as new, and wish to secure by Let- 7 5 ters Patent, is-

1. A brush-head, a bolt secured thereto having a bent screw-threaded end, a handle having an end with a screw-threaded opening to receive the threaded bolt and a wedge-shaped 8o washer between the head and the handle.

2. A brush-head, abolt secured thereto having an out-of-round portion anda screw-threaded end, a handle having an end with a'screwthreaded opening to receive the threaded bolt 8 5 and a wedge-shaped washer between the head and the handle having an opening out of round to receive the out-of-round bolt and prevent rotation of the latter in the wedge.

3. A brush head having an under side socket, a hole smaller in diameter than the socket leading therefrom through the head, a bolt having its head in the socket and its body in the smaller hole, said bolt having a portion out of round in cross-section, a bent screwthreaded end projecting through the top of the brush-head, a handle having a screw-threaded hole to receive the threaded end of the bolt and a wedge-shaped washer between the brushhead and the handle, said washer having a hole out of round to receive the out-of-round portion of the bolt.

'In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Tiffin, Ohio, this 3d day of 10 September, A. D. 1902.

FRED H. LOVELESS.

Witnesses:

F. H. ROBBINS, O. M. KNAPP. 

